Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751942AbaG2RgN (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:36:13 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:46737 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750929AbaG2RgM (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:36:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:36:00 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, dvhart@linux.intel.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, bobby.prani@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 2/9] rcu: Provide cond_resched_rcu_qs() to force quiescent states in long loops Message-ID: <20140729173600.GN3935@laptop> References: <20140728225556.GA19493@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1406588180-21933-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1406588180-21933-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20140729075536.GZ19379@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20140729162236.GP11241@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20140729172542.GK3935@laptop> <20140729173318.GW11241@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140729173318.GW11241@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:33:18AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > No, but why can't we make the regular cond_resched() do this? > > Well, I got a lot of grief when I tried it a few weeks ago. > > But from what I can see, you are the maintainer or cond_resched(), so > if you are good with making the normal cond_resched() do this, I am > more than happy to make it so! ;-) Well, its the 'obvious' thing to do. But clearly I haven't tried so I'm blissfully unaware of any problems. And the Changelog didn't inform me either (you had a link in there, which I didn't read :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/